Lincoln Shannon,
an American early computer chess programmer and author of Chesstar, which played the ACM 1976.
Predictions
Quote from ACM 1976 report on the ability of chess programs [1][2]:
Levy said programs get more sophisticated each year. He predicted he'd lose his standing (5,000$ bet he can beat any program written, possibly in the 1980s). But he said there will always be players at the grand master level much better than himself that computers will never be able to beat. "There'll never be a computer program capable of beating, say, Anatoly Karpov, the current world champion," Levy said. "Boris Spassky (former world champion) played a computer and won very easily. Computers are very bad, really, by human standards. They're not flexible. They lack subjective judgmental ability." "Hogwash," retorted Lincoln Shannon, author of Chesstar, a newcomer at the tournament, which finished back in the pack. "Someday someone will put together a program using more than one computer, operating in parallel, that can beat a world champion. It's possible."
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Lincoln Shannon,
an American early computer chess programmer and author of Chesstar, which played the ACM 1976.
Predictions
Quote from ACM 1976 report on the ability of chess programs [1] [2]:References
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